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One of the Greatest Political Events in the History of the United States

The 2024 election of Donald Trump is one of the greatest political events in the History of the United States.  Whatever you may think of Trump, how bad you dislike him, this is a unique moment.  It’s hard to say that anyone has been opposed by more people and to a greater extent than him.  I could tell you of the very powerful people, institutions, investigations, trials, and events that went against him.  You know it already.  He still won.  This win, I would say, tops 2016 too, which is hard to do.

Historical Precedent

Many people would say that Trump would either win or go to prison.  Let that settle in once again.  The other side was going to put him in prison.  He’s already had at least two assassination attempts on his life, one of the bullets hitting him in the head.

Other presidents set themselves apart.  Four were assassinated:  Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.  I hope the Secret Service does a good job at guarding Trump, keeping a sharp look-out, because the threat is still there.  What will set him apart is his resilience against the degree of onslaught.

When I declare the historical precedent of Trump’s election, president now number 45 and 47, this comes out of teaching history and government for over thirty years.  I know American history.  As a figure, Trump has risen to a level of greatness in United States history, compared to the events of American history.  The country itself might not make it another one hundred years and it shrinks into oblivion next the kingdom of Jesus Christ and the eternal state.  Still, you are witnessing something significant.

Resilience

People stuck with Trump in a major way because he wouldn’t and didn’t quit.  I can’t envision anyone else standing against all this.  Not only would no one else have continued, like he did, but much more than that.  He won really against all odds.

What can people say?  What can his enemies say?  This is quite a win and quite a loss.  Whatever comments someone may have even to this post — well, you lost.  I’ve heard it all myself in the way of attack, nothing like what Trump has withstood.

Trump wasn’t alone.  People stood with him despite the slings and arrows.  It wasn’t easy for any of them to face the hatred they did.  I’m happy for them, but now the hardest part, really.

Hope for the Future

I hope this victory will not be met by anything close to what happened in 2016.  It shouldn’t.  The American people have spoken, despite the absolute mockery and ridicule at unprecedented levels.

Things should change in the country.  This ought to allow more freedom at least.  Everyone reading here should think he can take this as an opportunity.  When I say that, I mean for God.

Many reading here won’t like this, but it’s true.  We should praise God that Trump won.  God deserves the credit and the glory.  I’m not endorsing Trump’s morality or testimony.  Instead, it is something providential and can be very useful too.

It’s a good time to make a move on embracing everything about scripture.  It is the truth.  Men are men and women are women.  It matches much of what God wants.  Go at it with gusto and without apology.  Do the will of God.  Talk about Him.  You’ve been given a great opportunity.  Don’t let it pass you by.

Watching a Slow Motion Car Crash: 2023-2024 United States

Preach the Gospel

My wife and I live in a mobile home in small town rural Indiana, evangelizing Decatur County as well as a 25 minute radius of our church building.  I preach the gospel almost every day to someone.  We do discipleship, Bible studies, and meet for church.  Her and I exist in our own little bubble.  We walk twice a day by fields of beans, corn, and wheat.

I do think that the work of our church here transcends other contemporary narratives. We keep our eye on the ball, staying focused on the real problem in the world and its actual solution.  It glorifies God, gives Him pleasure.  Someone might say our little lives here epitomize one of many micronarratives within a larger macro one.  I could argue, however, that we represent the macro and the popular larger narrative equals the micro.  The gospel overshadows politics or what occurs to a nation in a window of history.

No one in the future kingdom of Christ and then the eternal state will look back and think that the American government was the main theme.  Neither will anyone in that kingdom consider the decline of the United States to be the major issue of that day.  The way back to Paradise, lost in the Fall, comes through Jesus Christ.

Slow Motion Car Crash

As a backdrop to serving God in a church, I observe now a slow motion car crash.  Two cars now careen toward each other and a future wreck.  Maybe I could use another metaphor, like the trajectory of an asteroid in the path of earth on schedule to collide in November of 2024.  It might not matter what your side of the political spectrum, you see this crash coming too.

I don’t write to say, “You read it here first.”  You could have read it somewhere else first.  However, I haven’t read yet about the collision of which I explain and describe.  When you read it somewhere else, you might say, I read it first at What Is Truth.  Who cares, really?  As I write about this here, first or last, you might anticipate this inevitable demolition derby.

Trump

Donald Trump leads the polls on the Republican side.  He embodies a large faction of the country, bigger than any single cohesive body of people.  That car continues rolling forward at a larger than ever fifty plus percent of Republican voters.  Even in Iowa and New Hampshire he dominates his opposition right now 16 months before the next presidential election.

As Trump moves along his path, so do four different legal prosecutions against him, all very suspect in nature, especially in comparison to others (I understand this will trigger a portion of the readers).  Trump voters saw the Russia hoax impeachment.  They also witnessed the Zelensky phone call impeachment.  The government spied on his campaign.  The Clinton campaign paid for the fabricated Steele dossier used for a FISA warrant.  The FBI lied about it and then covered it up.  And all that is less than half of everything Trump supporters know.

Still, Trump enemies continue to use the legal system to impede or stop Trump, what people call weaponization of government.  Every prosecution looks shady, questionable, like political persecution.  The present administration targets its number one political enemy.  Nevertheless, the Trump car rumbles down the road, even gaining in momentum the more legal woes he faces.

Biden

Joe Biden comes from the other direction.  Even though he couldn’t fill an average sized local gymnasium to see him, he tallied the most votes ever in 2020.  Zuckerbucks influenced local election offices all over the country.  Courts changed laws to favor ballot harvesting with little to no voter identification.  Social media giants censored news unfavorable to the Democrat.  In addition, lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies.

The Biden car and the Trump car head toward each other.  They’re moving fast, but they’re so far away, that it’s like watching from thirty thousand feet.  The cars move at an imperceptible pace, yet moving on an identical line.

Criminal prosecution hovers around Joe Biden.  Massive corruption on an unprecedented scale looks obvious.  It seems like no repercussions for him.  Like the Clintons, nothing will happen more than verbiage.

A crash looks inevitable.  No one knows what will happen in 2023-24.  Will they prosecute Trump and try to put him behind bars?  Might the Bidens skate again or face their comeuppance?  Could a third party enter the race?

The Great American Divorce

Many more questions remain.  What would Trump supporters do if this government convicted him?  Would they accept that verdict?  With the way the progressives use the system like a banana republic, will people stand by and let this happen?  A large percentage of United States citizens see their government as dirty.  Those people are waiting and watching right now from that thirty-thousand feet.  A big gap separates the two biggest factions in the country.  The two sides are irreconcilable.  One of them is especially unhappy.

The country doesn’t neatly divide like the north and the south in 1860.  Both factions live in the same states.  Red citizens are fleeing blue states to red ones.  A few years ago some started calling this, the great American divorce (here and here) or American secession (here and here).  Historian Victor Davis Hanson says we’re on the verge of our French Revolution.  He also called it, “The Impending Thermidor Reaction in Jacobin America.”

The Only Remedy

To go back to the way I began this essay, I call this slow motion car crash just a backdrop to the most important.  The belief and practice of an individual true church surpasses the miserable condition of the nation.  It seems obvious a future collision is coming.  No one knows the outcome of this monumental head-on crash, but scripture says the remedy is still the same, the gospel.

Elevation of the gospel starts with the church.  Turn and look to the message of the cross as the prescription.  Judgment must begin in the house of God.

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